Marge dragged Kaichi to the paper mill.

She showed Jiayi the recently made paper, which was spread out one by one and displayed in front of Jiayi.

The front one looked even brighter, with crisp and smooth tentacles and delicate textures, better than the paper that Kaiichi had ever seen, even compared to the rice paper he had ever seen, it was not much worse.

Seeing that Kaichi paid so much attention to this paper, March introduced: "This is a paper with elf straw pulp added, and the effect is very good, and it can even reside a small part of the magic on it." ”

"Oh?" Kaishi was taken aback, this was a big discovery, "Is it possible to make a scroll?"

March shook his head helplessly: "No, although it can reside in magic, but the magic power that can reside is too weak to depict the rune array, even if the depiction is successful, there is no power at all." However, we are experimenting with the possibility of making a paper that can be used to copy scrolls. ”

If you can really make paper for scrolls, Jiayi can already see the money scene of this matter, it doesn't need to be too high-end, just be able to make the most ordinary scrolls, and then the profits will roll in.

But unfortunately, now I don't know if this paper is the dawn.

Except for the first piece of paper of the best quality, the remaining paper is of much worse quality than the naked eye.

However, these papers also have their own characteristics, some papers are thinner, some are cheaper, and some are very soft, and when it comes to the next few sheets of paper, the quality of these papers is obviously much worse, even if it is folded, it is almost impossible to stand up, it is like a napkin.

Jiayi has the heart to let them produce more paper like this, which can be used as toilet paper, and now Jiayi also uses paper to go to the toilet, but it is the kind of old-fashioned inferior paper, and the chrysanthemum that rubs it is a little painful. However, this is already good, and it was originally only possible to solve it with leaves.

But now he doesn't have to worry about not bringing paper, he can directly control the water flow to rinse, and he can also dry, but he is a little unaccustomed to it.

It's a pity that the current paper mill can't keep up with the production capacity, and the production of toilet paper is too wasteful.

However, one of them looks a little stiffer, but the quality is still much worse than the previous one. Jia Yi dropped a few drops of water on this piece of paper, and the water droplets quickly penetrated into it.

"This paper has good water absorption, but some of it is too good, not very good for writing, and it is easy to break if it is heavy, but this paper is made of wood pulp, which is much cheaper than the white paper in front, and the process is much simpler. ”

March looked at the paper that Jia Yi had picked up and introduced it to him.

Jiayi's original recipe was to use bark, hemp, rattan and other materials to make paper, which did not have much application for tree trunks, but in this case, it was a bit wasteful, and the straight trunk could of course be used as a material, either for building or building a home, but the branches were useless.

Moreover, they use fast-growing trees to make paper, and the wood is not particularly hard, which is not very ideal as furniture or building materials, so the Lorrell and their roots grind the wooden part of the bark into wood pulp, which is used to make the current paper.

The same goes for those "toilet papers", which are made from wood pulp.

Jia Yi listened to the low cost, looked at the paper in his hand, and felt a familiar feeling, he suddenly remembered, this paper is very similar to newspaper paper, it should be called newsprint, it is also made of wood pulp, good water absorption, the ink dries quickly, suitable for printing newspapers with a large amount of input.

In the current market, there are magazines but no newspapers, because at present parchment paper is mainly used, the cost is too high, and the issuance of magazines is a big loss, mainly supported by some large organizations, used to expand influence, share knowledge, and promoted by the executive power of the Supreme Council.

But if you want to print a newspaper, you can't do it, not to mention whether there is so much news, but the cost can be staggering, and dispel this idea.

Seeing this newsprint-like paper, Jiayi was interested, if it could be high, the newspaper would have a lot to do.

However, the specific performance still needs to be verified.

After visiting the paper mill, Kaichi took a few sheets of "newsprint" and went to Gwen's side.

Gwen once helped Jia Yi and them publish their "College Plant Taxonomy", which is now used as the college's textbook, and has a publisher relationship, so Jia Yi came to Gwen for help.

After listening to Jiayi's intentions, Gwen took the paper in Jiayi's hand and looked at it carefully: "This paper is indeed not as good as the one you originally brought, do you want to use this paper to print the so-called newspaper?"

Jia nodded: "Yes, the current publications are all academic, of course, this is also because the cost of parchment is too large, so it cannot be popularized, but now with the new paper, it is different, the cost is greatly reduced, it can not be limited to academic knowledge, you can publish some market news, novelty news, poetry, novels and so on." In the future, you can also charge advertising fees and the like, which must be promising. ”

In fact, Jiayi did not say that the most important thing about newspapers is a public opinion position, and when the Internet does not appear, newspapers and other publications are the most important front line of public opinion, and whoever can control the newspaper will have a considerable right to speak in public opinion.

Jia Yi didn't have the idea of grasping public opinion, with his current small body, it would be a bit ambitious to think about this, just like the author wants to become the richest man, even if it is not easy in the village.

But this doesn't mean that Jiayi doesn't want to get a hand in it, at least a piece of the pie.

Although Gwen didn't expect Jiayi to be so long-term, he also realized the benefits of newspapers, unlike the current publications such as "Wizard", "Electromagnetic", "Elemental" and "Life", which are too professional and not friendly to ordinary people, while the newspaper envisioned by Jiayi is aimed at ordinary people, and it is very beneficial for the spread of knowledge and the transmission of ideas in the mage world.

If hundreds of years ago, there was still a tradition of self-containment among mages, and they were reluctant to communicate too much, even when the academy was teaching students, there was a desire to keep a hand.

But since the rise of modern magic, especially after the promotion of legendary mages such as Clay Isaac, the Emperor of Magic, and Iknomih Magnay, the Lord of Thunder, the current mages are happy to see the spread of knowledge - except for a few old ones, these people are almost on the verge of obsolescence.

Gwen said to Jiayi: "If it is only used to verify the feasibility of this newspaper, there is no need to go to the printing agency, they usually have printing tasks, and it is impossible to squeeze out time to verify the printing of this newspaper with you, which will affect their business." ”

was said by Gwen, Jia Yi also knew that he was a little taken for granted, of course, it is best to find someone to help without affecting others, and now it is a bit too much to ask people to stop work, even if they agree, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not complain behind their backs.

Seeing Jiayi's depressed appearance, Gwen smiled and said, "You don't have to worry, it's not impossible." ”

Hearing this, Jia Yi immediately stared at Gwen, wanting to see what she could do.

"Once upon a time, the dean wanted to run a publication in the academy, but it was not completed, but the magic printing press was bought, it is not big, it can print five or six thousand sheets of paper a day, you can borrow this, it should be enough for you to experiment. Thousands of gold coins were bought at the time, and then they were idle. ”

"That's great. Jia Yi was overjoyed, but he was a little puzzled, "Why haven't the college publications been launched?"

The college has a large population, and there is also Beishui City nearby, and the literacy rate is also high.

"It's not a matter of cost, even the four major magazines can't make money, for example, our small magazines limited to the academy are not as good as other professional magazines, and the price is not cheap, so they can't sell much. Several colleges had the idea of running a magazine, but none of them were able to do so, except for those backed by the Supreme Council. It's all because the cost is too high, the sales are small, and now even Mosacher has the idea of stopping his own publication, and there is no point in maintaining such a publication.

"If you can really get the newspaper done, the dean will be happy. ”

At the end, Gwen reminded Jia that this was a good opportunity to pat the dean's ass.